Your Toy Portrait - Custom Toy Portraits by Jennifer Maher » hamtaro http://customtoyportrait.com Original, Affordable Works of Art Thu, 17 May 2012 13:28:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Hamtaro and Totoro, take 4 http://customtoyportrait.com/toyportraits/hamtaro-and-totoro-take-4/ http://customtoyportrait.com/toyportraits/hamtaro-and-totoro-take-4/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:15:03 +0000 Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait http://customtoyportrait.com/?p=3265 8×10 acrylic on cardboard, 2012. These two are long-time V.I.P. toys in our house, and this is my fourth portait of them! The first two versions were puchased off the walls of exhibits, and the third was commissioned by someone who had seen the second but didn’t get to it before it sold. My husband and I originally bought the foot-tall Hamtaro in 2004 as a sort of mascot for his Toyota Matrix, which we called “The Hamster.” We bought the little Totoro for Sonja, hoping she would love the movie as much as we do (and she does!) I got myToulouse Lautrec on with this portrait, which is painted on a piece of cardboard that has been calling to me from the back of one of Sonja’s activity books for weeks!

]]> http://customtoyportrait.com/toyportraits/hamtaro-and-totoro-take-4/feed/ 0 Totoro/Hamtaro http://customtoyportrait.com/sold/totorohamtaro/ http://customtoyportrait.com/sold/totorohamtaro/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:46:45 +0000 Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait http://customtoyportrait.com/?p=176 9×12″, acrylic on canvas, 2009. This dual portrait was so nice I had to make it twice! It was sold during my recent show at Uncommon Grounds, and someone who had seen it and wanted to give it to his girlfriend for her birthday was really disappointed. He called me while I was on vacation in Delaware and explained his situation, and I offered to try my best to reproduce it quickly upon my return…hamtaroctp Further complicating the matter, he was not local to our area and the girlfriend’s birthday was only three days after I was to get home. So even before unpacking, I broke out these two stuffed animals, set up my gear, and had the painting complete and Express Mailed within 24 hours!

This picture combines two titans of Japanese pop-culture, Hamtaro the hamster and the Studio Ghibli character Totoro.

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